Perjury The Hiss-Chambers Case

by Weinstein, Allen

• ISBN13: 9780817912253
• ISBN10: 0817912258
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2013-04-01
• Publisher: Hoover Institution Press

Summary

When the Hiss-Chambers case first burst on the scene in 1948, its main characters and events seemed more appropriate to spy fiction than to American reality. The major historical authority on the case, Perjury was first published in 1978. Now, in its latest edition, Perjury links together the old and new evidence, much of it previously undiscovered or unavailable, bringing the Hiss-Chambers’s amazing story up to the present.

Author Biography

Allen Weinstein founded the Center for Democracy, a Washington-based nonprofit, and remained its president until 2003. He served as archivist of the United States from 2005 to 2009 and has held professorships at Smith College, Georgetown, and Boston University. He received the United Nations Peace Medal, the Council of Europe’s Silver Medal twice, and the Edgar Allan Poe Special Award from the Mystery Writers of America for his original edition of Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case. His previous books include Freedom and Crisis: An American History, The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America—the Stalin Era, Prelude to Populism, and The Story of America.